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Roger Ebert's 4 out of 4 star Films

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833

6.9

7.3

Flight

" Not often does a movie character make such a harrowing personal journey that keeps us in deep sympathy all of the way." — Chicago Sun-Times

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1429

7.2

7.4

Cloud Atlas (2012)

" Surely this is one of the most ambitious films ever made." — Chicago Sun-Times

1572

7.4

7.7

Argo (2012)

" Both spellbinding and surprisingly funny." — Chicago Sun-Times

SwornShadow's rating:

648

7.2

7.6

End of Watch (2012)

"End of Watch" is one of the best police movies in recent years, a virtuoso fusion of performances and often startling action. " ‐ Chicago Sun-Times

SwornShadow's rating:

615

7.9

Rio Bravo (1959)

" To watch Rio Bravo is to see a master craftsman at work. The film is seamless. There is not a shot that is wrong. It is uncommonly absorbing, and the 141-minute running time flows past like running water. " ‐ Chicago Sun-Times

SwornShadow's rating:

7.4

7.7

El Norte (1983)

" From the very first moments of El Norte, we know that we are in the hands of a great movie. " ‐ RogerEbert.com

3161

8.3

Princess Mononoke (1997)

" Hayao Miyazaki is a great animator, and his Princess Mononoke is a great film. " ‐ RogerEbert.com

SwornShadow's rating:

841

7.9

Amour (2012)

" Old age isn't for sissies, and neither is this film. " ‐ Chicago Sun-Times

1834

7.4

7.9

Life of Pi (2012)

" Ang Lee's "Life of Pi" is a miraculous achievement of storytelling and a landmark of visual mastery. " ‐ Chicago Sun-Times

SwornShadow's rating:

1250

7.2

7.3

Lincoln (2012)

" The hallmark of the man, performed so powerfully by Daniel Day-Lewis in "Lincoln," is calm self-confidence, patience and a willingness to play politics in a realistic way. " ‐ Chicago Sun-Times

SwornShadow's rating:

1557

7.9

Persepolis (2007)

" It might seem that her story is too large for one 98-minute film, but Persepolis tells it carefully, lovingly and with great style. It is infinitely more interesting than the witless coming-of-age Western girls we meet in animated films. " ‐ Chicago Sun-Times

SwornShadow's rating:

5283

8.5

The Departed (2006)

" What makes this a Scorsese film, and not merely a retread, is the director's use of actors, locations and energy, and its buried theme. I am fond of saying that a movie is not about what it's about; it's about how it's about it. " ‐ Chicago Sun-Times

SwornShadow's rating:

225

6.5

6.6

Arbitrage (2012)

" Hitchcock called his most familiar subject "The Innocent Man Wrongly Accused." Jarecki pumps up the pressure here by giving us a Guilty Man Accurately Accused, and that's what makes the film so ingeniously involving. " ‐ Chicago Sun-Times

4109

7.4

Casino Royale (2006)

" Casino Royale has the answers to all my complaints about the 45-year-old James Bond series, and some I hadn't even thought of. " ‐ Chicago Sun-Times

SwornShadow's rating:

199

8.1

8.4

Samsara (2011)

" Filmed over five years, in locations in 25 countries, it is the kind of experience you simply sink into. " ‐ Chicago Sun-Times

236

7.6

Oslo, August 31st

"Oslo, August 31st" is quietly, profoundly, one of the most observant and sympathetic films I've seen.

114

7.3

Chicken with Plums (2011)

" It is all melancholy and loss, and delightfully comedic, with enough but not too much magic realism. " ‐ Chicago Sun-Times

341

7.8

8.2

Searching for Sugar Man (2012)

" I hope you're able to see this film. You deserve to. And yes, it exists because we need for it to. " ‐ Chicago Sun-Times

7.6

A Simple Life (2012)

" Here is a film with the clarity of fresh stream water, flowing without turmoil to shared destiny. No plot gimmicks. No twists and turns. Just a simple life. " ‐ Chicago Sun-Times

315

7.2

7.4

Interiors (1978)

" Allen, whose comedies have been among the cheerful tonics of recent years, is astonishingly assured in his first drama. " ‐ Chicago Sun-Times

373

6.9

Play Misty for Me (1971)

" There is no purpose to a suspense thriller, I suppose, except to involve us, scare us, to give us moments of vicarious terror. Play Misty for Me does that with an almost cruel efficiency. " ‐ Chicago Sun-Times

SwornShadow's rating:

2842

6.6

7.2

The Karate Kid (1984)

" An exciting, sweet-tempered, heart-warming story with one of the most interesting friendships in a long time. " ‐ Chicago Sun-Times

SwornShadow's rating:

639

7.1

7.2

Beasts of the Southern Wild

" This film is a remarkable creation, imagining a self-reliant community without the safety nets of the industrialized world. " ‐ Chicago Sun-Times

SwornShadow's rating:

1297

6.6

6.7

TRON (1982)

" A dazzling movie from Walt Disney in which computers have been used to make themselves romantic and glamorous. Here's a technological sound-and-light show that is sensational and brainy, stylish, and fun. " ‐ Chicago Sun-Times

SwornShadow's rating:

1701

7.2

7.3

Across the Universe (2007)

" The experience of the movie is joyous. " ‐ Chicago Sun-Times

6531

8.2

8.4

The Shining (1980)

" The movie is not about ghosts but about madness and the energies it sets loose in an isolated situation primed to magnify them. " ‐ Chicago Sun-Times

SwornShadow's rating:

469

7.5

The Phantom of the Opera (1925)

" It has two elements of genius: It creates beneath the opera one of the most grotesque places in the cinema, and Chaney's performance transforms an absurd character into a haunting one. " ‐ Chicago Sun-Times

SwornShadow's rating:

1456

7.7

7.6

Rebel Without a Cause (1955)

" Like its hero, Rebel Without a Cause desperately wants to say something and doesn't know what it is. If it did know, it would lose its fascination. " ‐ Chicago Sun-Times

SwornShadow's rating:

6.7

Last Ride (2009)

" As Kev, the veteran actor Weaving gives the performance of lifetime. " ‐ Chicago Sun-Times

2135

7.3

7.6

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

" One of the great moviegoing experiences. " ‐ Chicago Sun-Times

SwornShadow's rating:

2163

6.7

Prometheus (2012)

" Ridley Scott's "Prometheus" is a magnificent science-fiction film, all the more intriguing because it raises questions about the origin of human life and doesn't have the answers. " ‐ Chicago Sun-Times

SwornShadow's rating:

1235

6.4

6.8

Superman II (1980)

" Superman II begins in midstream, and never looks back... " ‐ Chicago Sun-Times

SwornShadow's rating:

517

7.8

Stagecoach (1939)

" Seen today, Stagecoach may not seem very original. That's because it influenced countless later movies in which a mixed bag of characters are thrown together by chance and forced to survive an ordeal. " ‐ Chicago Sun-Times

SwornShadow's rating:

2093

7.4

7.5

Hugo (2011)

"Hugo" is unlike any other film Martin Scorsese has ever made, and yet possibly the closest to his heart: a big-budget, family epic in 3-D, and in some ways, a mirror of his own life. " ‐ Chicago Sun-Times

SwornShadow's rating:

1193

7.1

7.6

Moneyball

" A smart, intense and moving film that isn't so much about sports as about the war between intuition and statistics. " ‐ Chicago Sun-Times

SwornShadow's rating:

2601

7.8

Drive (2011)

" Here is still another illustration of the old Hollywood noir principle that a movie lives its life not through its hero, but within its shadows. " ‐ Chicago Sun-Times

SwornShadow's rating:

2108

6.9

7.2

Rango (2011)

"Rango" is some kind of a miracle: An animated comedy for smart moviegoers, wonderfully made, great to look at, wickedly satirical, and (gasp!) filmed in glorious 2-D. " ‐ Chicago Sun-Times

SwornShadow's rating:

3607

7.2

7.6

Watchmen (2009)

" Another bold exercise in the liberation of the superhero movie. " ‐ Chicago Sun-Times

SwornShadow's rating:

5480

8.4

Inglourious Basterds (2009)

" Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds is a big, bold, audacious war movie that will annoy some, startle others and demonstrate once again that he's the real thing, a director of quixotic delights. " ‐ Chicago Sun-Times

SwornShadow's rating:

6319

7.5

Sin City (2005)

" It's a visualization of the pulp noir imagination, uncompromising and extreme. Yes, and brilliant. " ‐ Chicago Sun-Times

SwornShadow's rating:

4757

7.5

Ratatouille (2007)

" A lot of animated movies have inspired sequels, notably Shrek, but Brad Bird's Ratatouille is the first one that made me positively desire one. " ‐ RogerEbert.com

SwornShadow's rating:

771

6.2

6.5

Hereafter (2010)

" Clint Eastwood's Hereafter considers the idea of an afterlife with tenderness, beauty and a gentle tact. " ‐ Chicago Sun-Times

SwornShadow's rating:

3555

7.4

7.8

The Social Network (2010)

" David Fincher's film has the rare quality of being not only as smart as its brilliant hero, but in the same way. It is cocksure, impatient, cold, exciting and instinctively perceptive. " ‐ Chicago Sun-Times

SwornShadow's rating:

1846

6.3

6.4

Salt (2010)

" It's like a rebuke to all the lousy action movie directors who've been banging pots and pans together in our skulls. It winds your clock tight and the alarm doesn't go off for 100 minutes. " ‐ Chicago Sun-Times

4108

7.5

8.1

The Exorcist (1973)

" If movies are, among other things, opportunities for escapism, then The Exorcist is one of the most powerful ever made. " ‐ Chicago Sun-Times

SwornShadow's rating:

6241

8.2

8.8

Inception (2010)

" It's said that Christopher Nolan spent ten years writing his screenplay for Inception. That must have involved prodigious concentration, like playing blindfold chess while walking a tight-wire. " ‐ Chicago Sun-Times

3341

8.1

Into the Wild (2007)

" Sean Penn's spellbinding film adaptation of this book stays close to the source. " ‐ Chicago Sun-Times

SwornShadow's rating:

1129

6.7

7.1

Flags of Our Fathers (2006)

" Eastwood's two-film project is one of the most visionary of all efforts to depict the reality and meaning of battle. " ‐ Chicago Sun-Times

SwornShadow's rating:

7383

7.5

8.2

Batman Begins (2005)

" Batman Begins at last penetrates to the dark and troubled depths of the Batman legend. " ‐ Chicago Sun-Times

SwornShadow's rating:

7838

8.3

The Dark Knight (2008)

" Iron Man and even more so The Dark Knight move the genre into deeper waters. They realize, as some comic-book readers instinctively do, that these stories touch on deep fears, traumas, fantasies and hopes. " ‐ Chicago Sun-Times

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A collection of all the films the famous critic Roger Ebert thought were perfect in their right and awarded them 4 out of 4 stars as is his rating system. See if you find some favorites among this list and maybe even some you disagree with . . . 0.0! *Quotes from Roger Ebert via Rotten Tomatoes* More entries will be added over time :)